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...sophomore advising system signals the start of the semester in which I will make my concentration choice, I remember stopping by the English Department’s open house with my fellow pre-frosh over a year ago, only beginning to know what a concentration was. Amid the flyers and pamphlets, I wondered aloud to a department member why so much British fiction was required, and if that would be changing anytime soon. Her smile suddenly disappeared. “Well, it is English and American Literature…” she replied...
...English Department’s current concentration requirements, listed on the departmental website, call for the completion of two of 12 courses (14 for honors concentrators) on British literature and one on American literature. Further requirements, including those mandating one course in Shakespeare and two courses in other pre-1800 literature, are structured such that almost all eligible courses focus on British literature. In fact, half of the 100-level courses offered by the department this year are British literature courses while less than a third feature American literature specifically...
...book, A Farewell to Alms, economic historian Gregory Clark notes that the yawning chasm between rich and poor has been widening since the late 18th century. "Hundreds of millions of Africans now live on less than 40% of the income of pre-industrial England," he writes. Clark proposes a wildly contentious explanation for this disparity. By studying wills from England circa 1800, he finds that rich families tended to reproduce far more abundantly than poor ones. As the affluent outbred the poor, bourgeois values like thrift and literacy apparently diffused through English society from the top down, eventually jump-starting...
...parents, one of the more fascinating facets of AMC's period advertising drama Mad Men is its picture of child rearing in pre-childproofed, pre-co-sleeping 1960. There is a sense here that parents and kids have separate lives, and the kids' lives seem as alien, independent and dangerous as in caveman times: they ride in cars un-seat-belted, play with dry-cleaning bags and get sent off to shoot BB guns while the grownups have cocktails...
...even greater luxury was the thoughtfully pre-warmed toilet seat. Then came a disturbing discovery: Even though the other stalls were occupied, mine was the only one from which pee sounds were audible. All around me, I heard a great Zen-like steam of rushing water, but nary a human tinkle. I stopped mid-stream, overtaken by a sudden case of lavatory fright. In the land of toilets so fancy they sport buttons that manufacture artificial "flushing sounds," I had apparently committed a serious bathroom faux...